|
Date |
Page/Object |
| 2024 June 25 |
Installing MVS 3.8j
|
Modified alternate console to change from 3270 to 3215 device, which
allows changing Hercules' configuration to IPL MVS 3.8 with either a 3270
console or 3215 console integrated with Hercules' console.
|
| 2024 June 2 |
SYSCPK
CBT: IBHLSPAC
WHICHLIB
|
Updated WHICHLIB and IBHLSPAC. WHICHLIB (verify load module is
available and optionally show which load library it is found in) can now
handle SYS1.PARMLIB members with parameters beginning in column 1 and also
if they begin in column 2 with a blank preceding. IBHLSPAC now reads
an optional SYSIN DD to load up to 20 masks for reporting free space
available by DASD volume serial.
|
| 2024 May 21 |
Migrating System to 3390
Installing MVS 3.8j (resource
archives)
|
Marco Verpelli caught a few problems in my recent updates, mostly
impacting those running under Windows. 1) A Linux command left in
the stage2.rexx for the Windows version ('rm' changed to 'del' to
fix). 2) Suggested a change to default MVS console PFkey11
text. 3) The job migrating MVS system datasets to 3390 timed out on
his system, so I have added TIME=1440 on the JOB card for this job.
4) There were a couple of my private DASD left defined in the mvs3390.cnf
(strangely only in the Windows archive).
|
| 2024 May 19 |
Migrating System to 3390
|
Added an addendum for a short process to migrate MVS 3.8j system datasets
to 3390 DASD. May not be of interest to everyone, but I had been
asked about it by several people.
|
| 2024 May 17 |
SYSCPK
|
Updated ZZRELINK to CBT v506 in SYSC.CBT.SOURCE and added AC(1) to
reassemble to SYSC.LINKLIB. Added DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=121,BLKSIZE=121) to
SYSPRINT DD in SYSC.JCLLIB. These changes were required for relink of some
system modules in preparation of creating MVS 3.8j system residing on 3390
DASD.
|
| 2024 May 7 |
MVS Utilities
|
Added clarification to IEHMOVE target specification,
when target resides on TAPE devices.
|
| 2024 May 6 |
SYSCPK
Miscellaneous Programs
|
Updates to SYSCPK: Added emptytst and stats programs to
SYSC.CBT.SOURCE, SYSC.LINKLIB, and SYSC.JCLLIB; updated Y2K source for
Y2KGETD (also recompiled into SYSC.LINKLIB) to add return of system time.
Updated archive for installing Y2K date programs, which
is not necessary if you have SYSCPK installed.
|
| 2024 May 1 |
Installing MVS 3.8j
|
Updated guide for installing (generating) MVS 3.8j from
IBM distribution tapes. Includes updates from Rob Prins of Jim
Morrison's 3375/3380/3390 DASD modifications, as well as other User
Modifications required for building a target system that can more fully
utilize the 3375/3380/3390 DASD device types.
|
| 2024 March 16 |
SYSCPK
|
Removed duplicate SCRIPT documentation. Added
SCRIPT PROC to SYSC.PROCLIB and JCL to print SCRIPT manual to SYSC.JCLLIB.
Added source from which SPITBOL/370 was built and included jobstream to
build the SPITBOL/370 load module in SYSC.SPIT370.BUILD (supplied by Peter
Sylvester).
|
| 2024 March 11 |
SYSCPK
Sort/Merge
|
Updated OS/360 MVT Sort/Merge to Tom Armstrong's
revised version 1.01.
Rebuilt and reinstalled SPITBOL/370 load library using jobstream
supplied by Peter Sylvester.
Updated OS/360 MVT Sort/Merge to Tom Armstrong's revised version 1.01.
|
| 2024 January 30 |
SIMULA
|
Corrected erroneous statement regarding system date
requirement. This issue was corrected by Peter Sylvester subsequent to my
creation of the SIMULA page in 2016. The SIMULA compiler functions without
the need to change the system date, both the version provided on the
SIMULA page and the version included in SYSCPK.
|
| 2023 December 14 |
Installing MVS 3.8j
|
Rob Prins has updated the User Modificaftions for 3375/3380/3390 DASD
device types. The descriptions for his corrections include:
-
The UNITNAME macro had an
error if you code VIO=YES if you use 3375, 3380 and 3390 only. These
devices were not recognized as DASD devices. I have changed the Device
Information Table (DIT) for these devices.
-
And I have change SGIEC0DT.
The device area had an incorrect value for the OVERHEAD DECREMENT
NON-KEYED field for 3375, 3380 and 3390. So,
TRKCALC and DEVTYPE gives wrong results.
Rob has created a new tape, which
I have substituted for the previous version in my mvsInstallationResources
(both tar.gz and zip archives). The volume serial is now j90011. The
dataset names of the 3 files are unchanged (SMPMCS, M023000.F1 and
M023000.F2).
|
| 2023 August 23 |
MVS Utilities
|
Corrected example jobs for IEHPROGM. Thanks to Doug
Wegscheid for the pointing out the errors.
|
| 2023 August 16 |
Installing MVS 3.8j
|
Rob Prins issued a new version of the MVS Turnkey
(V5). In the process of creating this version, he corrected some
known deficiencies in the User Modifications used to add support for
3375/3380/3390 DASD device types to MVS 3.8j. The descriptions for
his corrections include:
These devices are not recognized
as DASD devices. Macros SGIDSP03,
SGIDSP04 and SGIDSP05 have been updated to set the DASD flag. Now
VIO=YES is accepted and works.
I got a return code 8 in macro
SGIGG500. A CONVERT was tried for a non-numeric value and there
was a undefined variable &BLKSIZE.
Rob has fixed these issues and
made a new tape, with an internal tape VOL label = J90010.
I have updated my installation objects to reflect the update to this
version of the tape. I have not generated a system using the tape,
but I know that Rob has completed the work to build a reliable tape, so I
have updated the tape in my instructions. Note: there are a couple
of graphics that have not been updated, and will not be until I can run
through a generation of the MVS 3.8j system using this tape. I
believe I have noted every occurrence of disagreement in the graphics.
Using this updated set of User
Modifications, it should be possible to generate a working MVS 3.8j system
using only 3380 or 3390 DASD device types for System Residence volume.
|
| 2023 May 25 |
SYSCPK
Installing MVS 3.8j
| Reinstalled Tom Armstrong's ALGOL compiler because of
reported problems. Source was CBT File #876, plus his patch from
2021/11/19.
Updated Waterloo assembler procedure, adding SYSLIN DD DUMMY.
Minor grammatical issues corrected on pages for installation of MVS 3.8j.
|
| 2023 March 9 |
Miscellaneous Programs
SYSCPK
| Added Ed Liss' PL/I wrapper for the subprogram to retrieve
JOB card information at execution time.
Refreshed SYSCPK DASD to include JOBCRDP in SYSC.LINKLIB.
|
| 2023 January 31 |
SYSCPK
| Added SLAC Link-Editor to SYSC.LINKLIB and modified all
procedures in SYSC.PROCLIB that call the Link-Editor to include a symbolic
variable to allow the selection of calling either the MVS 3.8j Link-Editor
(installed during System Generation) or the SLAC Link-Editor. Read
additional documentation in SYSC.LKED37.CNTL($README). Without
direct action, the procedures will continue to perform as before, i.e. the
MVS 3.8j Link-Editor will be used for all Link-Edit steps.
Added Bernd Oppolzer's New Stanford Pascal (from his 2023.01
update). Only the libraries required to run the compiler were loaded
onto SYSCPK. The procedure names to execute the compiler are those
distributed, however the dataset names were modified to conform to the
conventions used on SYSCPK. For additional information on this
distribution for MVS, visit https://github.com/StanfordPascal/
(the link for the archive download used to install on SYSCPK is: http://bernd-oppolzer.de/mvsinst.zip),
|
| 2022 September 22 |
Alternate Indexes over an ESDS
cluster
| Added an example of building/using multiple Alternate
Indexes over an ESDS cluster, then accessing the records from a COBOL
program (using VSAMIO).
|
| 2022 June 26 |
MVS FAQ
| Added several new Frequently Asked questions with answers.
|
| 2022 June 15 |
SYSCPK
| Uploaded new copy of prior update - the only change from
the 2022 June 10 update is that the DASD image is not compressed. Thank
you Chris for catching this.
|
| 2022 June 10 |
SYSCPK
| Update Ed Liss BASIC interpreter to V 3.3.1 on SYSCPK.
|
| 2022 April 30 |
Install KICKS
Install BREXX370
| Instructions updated to include addition of JOBLIB /or/
STEPLIB statement to the jobs that utilize RECV370 to expand embedded
installation libraries. This omission was simply an oversight on my part,
since I have MS00100 User Modification installed on my system, which
allows the inclusion of SYSC.LINKLIB in the Link List libraries. If your
system also has MS00100 installed, or you are running on a system where
RECV370 is installed in a library in the Link List, these two additional
statements are not required.
|
| 2022 March 2 |
Verify Load Module
Calculate CRC32
| Added a program to verify that a load module is available
(and return the library from which it can be loaded) and a program to
calculate the CRC32 sum for MVS datasets to the miscellaneous programs
page.
|
| 2022 February 14 |
MVS Optional Materials
(MVS source)
| Created a cross reference listing of the names of members
contained in the twenty-one partitioned datasets included in the MVS
Optional Materials tapes.
|
| 2022 February 6 |
MVS Utilities
SYSCPK
| Added MINIZIP and MINIUNZ to SYSCPK and to the MVS
Utilities documentation. I have been looking at this for a while and
will eventually be using it to compress some of the source libraries on
SYSCPK to conserve and better use the DASD capacity.
|
| 2022 January 25 |
CBT: IEHMAP
CBT: SHOWDSCB
CBT: PRINTALL
SYSCPK
| Updated IEHMAP MAPDEV module to increase the number of data
cylinders for 3380 DASD to 26,550 (3380-E).
Added SHOWDSCB program and jobstream.
Added PRINTALL program and jobstream.
Updated SYSCPK with the changes above.
|
| 2022 January 21 |
DSAT
| Added TSO command DSAT, which displays information about
selected datasets.
|
| 2022 January 18 |
ALIST
| Corrected looping when a VSAM dataset is allocated to the
TSO session.
|
| 2022 January 15 |
MVS Utilities
| Complete rewrite of utilities page, updating from the
original 10 OS/MVT centric utilities to 44 utilities, including both IBM
supplied utilities and many utilities commonly used on MVS 3.8 running
under Hercules.
|
| 2022 January 13 |
SYSCPK
| Added several utilities, updated versions of two utilities,
corrected name of one utility, expanded CBT source library and
SYSC.LINKLIB, copied volume making allocated datasets contiguous.
|
| 2021 December 29 |
MVT COBOL Y2K patch
SYSCPK
| Patched the MVT COBOL compiler to allow proper date in
heading, regardless of system date setting in 1900+ or 2000+, and also
corrected missing space before comma preceding four digit year. Load
module in SYSC.LINKLIB of SYSCPK has been updated, but a jobstream is also
provided if you have the MVT COBOL compiler installed independently on
your system (you will need to edit the JCL to change the target AMAZPZAP
uses).
|
| 2021 December 23 |
ISAM/VSAM COBOL Programs
| Added a page with solutions comparing/contrasting MVT COBOL
programs utilizing indexed datasets from native ISAM, VSAM accessed via
the ISAM/VSAM Interface Program, and VSAM.
|
| 2021 December 12 |
REXX scripts
| Updated GETVTOC script to eliminate RXDYNAMA calls, which seem
to be broken in V2R5M0 BREXX/370.
|
| 2021 November 28 |
NOTIFY usermod
| Added Brian Westerman user modification to add maximum
completion code to NOTIFY= message for jobs submitted under TSO.
|
| 2021 November 19 |
SYSCPK
| Applied ZAP to ALGOL (ref Tom Armstrong message in Turnkey message group 2021/10/03 mesage #1486),
plus a couple of changes to SYSC.PROCLIB members.
|
| 2021 November 13 |
CBT LISTSPC command
| Updated installation jobstream for LISTSPC command from CBT
(file #50 from version 129).
|
| 2021 November 7 |
Install RPF
V1R9M0
| Added instructions for retrieving and installing RPF
V1R9M0, which now installs from XMIT archives.
|
| 2021 November 6 |
UCB Scan routine
| Added UCB Scan routine (from H390-MVS archive) to
miscellaneous programs page.
|
| 2021 October 31 |
Apply Patch BREXX370
| Added guide to apply patch to BREXX370 V2R5M0 (issued 22
October 2021).
|
| 2021 October 10 |
Install BREXX370
| Update BREXX370 installation instructions for new release
[V2R5M0].
|
| 2021 September 30 |
mvsInstallationResources.tar.gz
mvsInstallationResources.zip
installMVS/fix.ZP60039.ZP60040.htm
| Corrected error in usermods6 jobstream - ZP60039 &
ZP60040 - Phil Young alerted me to the fact that there was a missing slash
in STEP18 step card that caused the step to not execute, resulting in
these two modifications being received, assembled, and checked, but not
applied. I have corrected the jobstream in the archives, ran
through the entire MVS 3.8j process again to verify, updated the original
web pages where necessary, and created a new page with a short job that
may be used to quickly and easily apply the two modifications. It is not
necessary to regenerate your system to apply these modifications.
|
|
COBOL
version AWS utilities
| GnuCOBOL compiler version 3.2 corrected an error that
previously allowed a subprogram in these two utilities to compile, but
after the compiler was updated the subprogram required a change to be
compatible. In order to compile these two utilities under GnuCOBOL
compiler version 3.2 or later, you need to download the updated COBOL
source code.
|
| 2021 June 15 |
SYSCPK
| Added SPITBOL/370 load library, procedure, and demo
jobstream; corrected errors in SIMULA procedures, added SIMULA demo
jobstream. Thanks to Jay Jaeger for pointing out the errors.
|
| 2021 April 21 |
CBT VTOC command
SYSCPK
| Updated installation jobstream for VTOC command from CBT
(file #112 from version 129).
|
| 2021 April 13 |
mvsInstallationResources.tar.gz
mvsInstallationResources.zip
installMVS/iCUSTv7.htm
| Corrected a typographical error in a comment in the SMP4P44
jobstream and updated the netcat utility in the Windows resources to
ncat.exe (from nc.exe) and changed the Windows batch script and Linux bash
script that utilize netcat to use ncat rather than nc to resolve problems
with large card image files.
|
| 2021 March 16 |
Install BREXX370
| Update BREXX370 installation instructions for new release
[V2R4M0].
|
| 2020 December 31 |
ISAM Interface Program
| Added example of using the ISAM/VSAM Interface on MVS 3.8j
|
| 2020 December 23 |
Install KICKS
| Added new page for KICKS (CICS-like transaction
processing).
|
| 2020 December 4 |
REXX scripts
| Added new page of REXX scripts for MVS 3.8j. It is my
intention to add more scripts here over time.
|
| 2020 November 29 |
Install BREXX370
| Update BREXX370 installation instructions for new release
[V2R3M0].
|
| 2020 November 20 |
COBOL IBM Manuals
COBOL DD Names
| Added links to COBOL and Linkage Editor manuals and a
summary table of DD Names required for COBOl compiler, Linkage Editor,
Loader, and COBOL program execution.
|
| 2020 November 17 |
SYSCPK
| Replaced GCCMVS catalogued procedures in SYSC.PROCLIB with
corrected versions from Marco Verpelli and also added MiniScheme (LISP)
contributed by him that uses GCCMVS to build.
|
| 2020 November 16 |
New Stanford PASCAL
| Added Bernd Oppolzer's New Stanford PASCAL compiler to the
available compilers page. From headings produced by the compiler,
this is version 2020.12.
|
| 2020 September 29 |
Install BREXX370
| Updated the links to main page and archive for BREXX/370.
|
| 2020 September 27 |
SYSCPK
GCCMVS
| Replaced SYSCPK and GCCMVS archives - a huge thanks to
Marco Verpelli for his suggestion to replace PDPCLIB.MACLIB(PDPTOP) member
with the proper contents for MVS370. As I do not use GCCMVS I was
not aware that this simple change was all that was necessary to handle the
generated assembler AMODE/RMODE statements. I made the change as
Marco suggested and backed out my solution at the JCL level. The
assembly step for the generated assembler now receives a 0000 code as
expected.
|
| 2020 September 26 |
SYSCPK
GCCMVS
| Replaced GCCMVS libraries with version 3.2.3 as Paul
Edwards advises that the 3.4.6 version is no longer supported and 3.2.3
supercedes 3.4.6.
|
| 2020 September 20 |
compilers/Pascal8000
| Updated Pascal8000 page to add copy of original archive
that was posted to H390-MVS years ago.
|
| 2020 September 18 |
mvsInstallationResources.tar.gz
mvsInstallationResources.zip
| Updated JES2 parameters in MVS installation jobstream
SYSGEN02: NUMJOES=1024 and NUMDA=2.
|
| 2020 September 17 |
JES2 Queue Management
| Added a page discussing JES2 queue, JES2 parameters, and
how to resolve, or better yet prevent, a full queue event.
|
| 2020 September 14 |
SYSCPK
| Update to add Greg Price' IMON source and load. Note
that you will need to run Greg's install job - modified to reflect
installation from the load modules on SYSCPK - to copy the load modules
into SYS2.CMDLIB before you can execute IMON.
|
| 2020 September 13 |
IEFU29 Exit
| Updated content on this page, which originated almost two
decades ago, to bring it in (sort of) compliance with my recent revisions
to the instructions/tutorial for installing MVS 3.8j. When this page
was written, there was nothing resembling the instructions for installing
MVS 3.8j.
|
| 2020 September 10 |
Installing MVS 3.8j
| Made a number of edits for clarity and to correct
typographical errors in text. A big "Thank you," to Nic in
Great Britain for the detailed feedback.
|
| 2020 September 5 |
Installing MVS 3.8j
| Updated the instructions/tutorial with a mini-revision,
which adds in user mods that I abandoned in the April revision because I
was running into too many problems with pre-requisites.
|
| 2020 August 31 |
Dynamic Proclib
usermod
| Corrected error in DDname in JES2 procedure for Dynamic
Proclib.
|
| 2020 August 29 |
IEFACTRT
| Updated source for IEFACTRT exit. My apologies -
error in calculating WTO buffer length in original release would cause MVC
for step end message to overwrite MCS flags, which would result in random
modification of message highlighting on console.
|
| 2020 August 21 |
IEFACTRT
| Added a new IEFACTRT exit.
|
| 2020 August 13 |
SYSCPK
| Added a warning for anyone using my job to integrate SYSCPK
into a system with a security package installed.
|
| 2020 July 29 |
IEFACTRT
| Added jobstream for TESTEXIT, IBM supplied program to test
IEFACTRT (and other) system exits.
|
| 2020 July 26 |
SYSCPK
| Added new version of REVLMOD, Paul Scott utilities, and
GCCMVS -- please read GCC.DOC($SYSCPK) after
adding SYSCPK to your system (you will need to specify the VOLSER to open
GCC.DOC to read it, as it will not initially be catalogued)
|
|
MVS FAQ
| Added procedures to create and delete TSO User ID
|
| 2020 July 24 |
GCCMVS
| Added a simplified installation tape/JCL for GCCMVS from
CBT Tape site.
|
| 2020 July 23 |
COBOL
version AWS utilities
| Updated AWS utility programs maketape and tapedump
with new versions written in COBOL
|
| 2020 July 15 |
MVS FAQ
| Made a number of updates to Frequently Asked Questions
pages and corrected some inactive external links in other pages throughout
the site
|
| 2020 July 13 |
Install BREXX370
| Added a guide to installing BREXX370
|
| 2020 July 10 |
xmit_recv
| Added material to XMIT/RECV documentation
|
| 2020 July 9 |
IND$FILE
| Added a page on how to use IND$FILE
|
| 2020 July 8 |
SYSCPK
| Updated to revise copybooks for VSAMIO and addition of
EPUTL/APUT
|
|
VSAM I/O COBOL
VSAM I/O PL/1
| Updated pages to note corrected error in copybooks and
output for all example jobs, adding DMAP to all COBOL programs
|
| 2020 June 18 |
SYSCPK
| Updated to add latest version of Jim Morrison's
RECV370/XMIT370
|
| 2020 June 14 |
TSO Tutorial
| Updated screen captures and corrected some narrative for
the TSO tutorial (written in 2004, so long due for some updating)
|
|
CBT TSO commands
| Added a page documenting CBT TSO commands which have
installation jobstreams on SYSCPK
|
|
SYSCPK
| Updated to add several new members to SYSC.CBT.SOURCE and
SYSC.JCLLIB
|
| 2020 June 7 |
User Modifications
| Note added to MS00100 (concatenated LNKLST load library)
breaks SMP jobs requiring link to assembler unless JOBLIB DD card included
|
| 2020 June 3 |
Customize MVS
3.8j
| Created a TSO in batch job to integrate the REVIEW user
profile into the TSO logon
|
| 2020 June 3 |
Getting Started
| Replaced OS360/MVT CD-ROM download
|
| 2020 June 3 |
Installing MVS 3.8j
| Updated installation jobstream (sysgen05.jcl) with new
Network Solicitor logon screen
|
| 2020 June 2 |
new NETSOL
| Added jobstream to install new Network Solicitor logon
screen
|
| 2020 May 28 |
User Modifications
| Added Brian Westerman's Dynamic Proclib modification
|
| 2020 May 27 |
older CBT
| Added CBT version #310 from 11/14/1989
|
| 2020 May 26 |
MVS Optional Materials
| Added scanned manifest of the MVS optional materials
|
| 2020 May 25 |
SYSCPK
| Added many TSO commands from CBT
|
| 2020 May 24 |
added Goddard tape
| Added the NASA Goddard tape to the older CBT collections
|
| 2020 May 21 |
User Modifications
| Added a page to collect modifications to MVS 3.8j
|
| 2020 May 15 |
SYSCPK
| Updated SYSCPK to consolidate CBT program source into
central dataset; added many more CBT programs (both source and ready to
run in SYSC.LINKLIB.
|
| 2020 May 15 |
VSAM I/O COBOL
VSAM I/O PL/1
| Updated these pages to conform to latest revision of MVS
3.8j installation instructions/tutorial. The datasets no longer need
to be installed as they are contained on
SYSCPK. All test/example programs have been revised to use the VSAM
data space that results from the revised MVS 3.8j installation. I
also added SYSOUT listings
for all the test/example programs to give a reference for expected output.
|
| 2020 May 12 |
backup & restore
| Added documentation for backing up and restoring datasets
under MVS 3.8j
|
| 2020 May 11 |
adding DASD volumes
| Updated narrative on adding new DASD volumes to Hercules/MVS
3.8j
|
| 2020 May 09 |
IBHLSPAC
| List all free space for online DASD
|
| 2020 May 06 |
Installing MVS 3.8j
| Complete revision of this process, including
narrative, scripts, jobstreams, usermods, and versions of software |
|
| Cleared change history to retain only past two
years information |
| 2020 Apr 13 |
older CBT
| Added SHARE JES2 Mods tape #84, 12/14/1987 |
| 2020 Apr 10 |
MVS FAQ
| How to correct failure of socket devices when
running Hercules 3.13 on Linux platform |
| 2020 Apr 10 |
older CBT
| Fixed missing closing parenthesis in import
jobstreams for CBT072, CBT103, CBT129, CBT188, CBT226, CBT278, CBT341,
COV466, SMMT80, and SPLA00 DASD volumes. |
| 2020 Apr 06 |
SYS1.APVTMACS
| Added SYS1.APVTMACS macro library installation
jobstream. |
| 2020 Apr 05 |
MVS Optional Materials
| Added MVS 3.8 Optional Materials tape contents. |
| 2020 Mar 30 |
| Removed references to now defunct Yahoo Groups and, where available, substituted sources on my site |
| 2019 Sep 26 |
MVT COBOL
|
Patch for XREF Abend of MVT COBOL |
| 2019 Aug 01 |
SYSCPK
|
Corrected Import jobstream: indent IDCAMS
commands 2 spaces out of column 1 and emphasize need to determine correct
DASD address for 3350 on target system. |
| 2019 Jul 29 |
SYSCPK
|
Update Ed Liss BASIC interpreter to V 3.1.0 |
| 2019 Jul 29 |
compilers/BASIC360
|
Update Ed Liss BASIC interpreter to V 3.1.0 |
| 2019 Jul 15 |
MVS FAQ
|
Replace NET PROCedure to eliminate orphaned
dataset when VTAM is not properly shut down |